Circle Cinema Film Festival Returns in July for 97th Anniversary

Jimmie Tramel
Tulsa World
July 3, 2025

New made-in-Oklahoma films will headline the 2025 Circle Cinema Film Festival, scheduled July 11-15.

Film subjects include a woman’s efforts to raise awareness of dementia as she struggles with the disease; local residents’ fight to save the Kiamichi River in southeastern Oklahoma from plans to build a hydropower plant; and Randy Crouch, “the hillbilly hippy rock ’n’ roll fiddle player from outer space.”

The seventh annual Circle Cinema Film Festival will commemorate Circle Cinema’s 97th anniversary. Circle Cinema was founded in 1928 and is the Tulsa area’s only nonprofit theater.

“The Circle Cinema Film Festival highlights films made in, by and for Oklahomans,” said Kerry Wiens, film festival coordinator. “Most films in the festival have a strong Oklahoma connection, whether the film was shot in Oklahoma or features current or former Oklahoma residents among filmmakers, cast or crew.”

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